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One drop / Elixer Productions Inc. (OCLC #48113659)

RDA 2.3.2 on Title Proper says to take this element from the preferred source of information, which for videorecordings is the title frame or frames (RDA 2.2.2.3): 

245 00 ǂa One drop / ǂc Elixer Productions Inc.

There is an alternative, which is to use a label with a title that is permanently printed on or affixed to the manifestation in preference to the title frame or frames. Policy statements vary on this alternative, with NLA PS and LAC PS saying not to apply the alternative, D-A-CH AWR saying to apply the alternative, and BL PS saying to use cataloguer’s judgement (LC PCC PS provides no guidance). We do not apply the alternative, and instead record any label or container title as a variant title:

246 1_ ǂi Title on cassette label: ǂa One drop rule
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Shackles from the deep : tracing the path of a sunken slave ship, a bitter past, and a rich legacy / by Michael H. Cottman. (OCLC #946580015)

RDA 11.0, the purpose and scope section of the chapter on Corporate bodies, includes this clarifying statement (emphasis mine):

Ad hoc events (e.g., athletic contests, exhibitions, expeditions, fairs, and festivals) and vessels (e.g., ships and spacecraft) are considered to be corporate bodies.

so subject headings for individual ships are recording in 610 fields:

610 20 ǂa Henrietta Marie (Ship) ǂv Juvenile literature.

More general terms about types of ships are still topical headings:

650 _0 ǂa Slave ships ǂv Juvenile literature.
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Hellhounds on my trail : the afterlife of Robert Johnson / produced by Non Fiction Films and Mug Shot Productions ; director/editor, Robert Mugge ; producers, Robert Mugge, Jeff Sanders. (OCLC #43394031)

Information about the participants, players, narrators, presenters, or performers in a work may be included in a Participant or Performer Note: 

511 0_ ǂa Commentary by Robert Porter, Jim O'Neal, Peter
    Guralnick, Robert Jordan, Robert Santelli, Howard Kramer, and
    others ; music performed by Bill Morrissey, Alvin Youngblood
    Hart, Guy Davis, Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, Keb' Mo', Tracy Nelson,
    Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas, Rory Block, G. Love & Special Sauce,
    Peter Green and many more.

For a cast listing, first indicator 1 should be used to generate a display constant of “Cast:”; otherwise the first indicator should be 0.

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Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation / by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi Okorafor. (OCLC #967496972)

The graphic novel adaptation of a work is a related work, with its own title and creator:

100 1_ ǂa Duffy, Damian, ǂe author.
245 10 ǂa Octavia E. Butler's Kindred : ǂb a graphic novel
    adaptation / ǂc by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ;
    introduction by Nnedi Okorafor.

Its record should include an access point for the original work, with an appropriate relationship designator:

700 1_ ǂi graphic novelization of (work): ǂa Butler, Octavia E.
    ǂt Kindred.
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Separate but equal / Republic Pictures Corporation. (OCLC #24617816)

RDA 7.7.1.3 on Recording the Intended Audience says to record this information if it is stated on the manifestation or is readily available from another source if considered important for identification or selection.“ The LC-PCC PS for this rule says that this element is core for resources intended for children.

521 __ ǂa Rated PG.
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Matthew Henson : explorer. (OCLC #29917825)

In the Dewey Decimal Classification, biographies may be classified in the 920s (with history), or simply under “B” with a cutter indicating the subject of the biography:

082 14 ǂa B ǂb H5265Ma
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Higher learning / a New Deal Production. (OCLC #32908987)

Subject headings for groups of people do not always use the term preferred by that group:

650 _0 ǂa Nazis ǂv Drama.
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Jazz day : the making of a famous photograph / Roxane Orgill ; illustrated by Francis Vallejo. (OCLC #913844760)

RDA 7.28 on Awards says that an award (a “formal recognition of excellence, etc., given by an award- or prize-granting body, for the content of a resource”) may be recorded if considered important for identification or selection:

586 __ ǂa Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, Picture Book, 2016.

and may be taken from any source.

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One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance / Nikki Grimes ; artwork by Cozbi Cabrera [and 12 others]. (OCLC #948337254)

BISAC (Book Industry Standards and Communications) is the subject category system used in bookstores, and some libraries. BISAC headings (hierarchical strings with the major category in all caps) may be used as subjects:

    650 _7 ǂa JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places
        / United States / African American. ǂ2 bisacsh
    650 _7 ǂa JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
        / 20th Century. ǂ2 bisacsh
    650 _7 ǂa JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse. ǂ2 bisacsh

These headings correspond one-to-one with terms that may be used as a classification system:

084 __ ǂa JNF018010 ǂa JNF025210 ǂa JUV057000 ǂ2 bisacsh

In both types of fields, ǂ2 bisacsh is used to indicate the source vocabulary.

Headings and terms may be looked up on the Book Industry Study Group web site.

(Thanks to The Feral Cataloger for this excellent intro to BISAC!)

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callmebackinfiveyears:

problem-cataloger:

James Baldwin : the price of the ticket / a Karen Thorsen production in association with Maysles Films, Inc. & WNET, New York ; directed by Karen Thorsen ; produced by Karen Thorsen & William Miles ; written by Karen Thorsen, Douglas K. Dempsey. (OCLC #25112025)

This title is biographical in nature, as indicated in the subject headings:

600 10 ǂa Baldwin, James, ǂd 1924-1987.
650 _0 ǂa African American authors ǂy 20th century ǂv Biography.
650 _0 ǂa Civil rights workers ǂz United States ǂv Biography.

If this were a Book record (for example, with Type: a for Language material and BLvl: m for monograph), there would be a position in the fixed fields used to designate this (Biog = 008/34, 006/17); as this is a Visual materials record, fixed fields are used to record other data specific to the format, such as running time (in minutes), and technique (live action or animated?).

Not at my desk right now, but is there a way to add the biography designation in a 006? As if any ILS would ever make use of that, but still. @problem-cataloger

I’m so glad you asked, @callmebackinfiveyears, as I’ve been wondering about this too; my guess is that you cannot do it, at least not for this video.

I only see the Biog fixed field in the Books type, so that sounds like to add this type of 006, the resource would have to be bookish in some way (like an ebook is primarily a book so that’s its 008, but is computer file-ish so gets that 006), or you would need to have a book as accompanying material that you could describe with that 006. The OLAC

Best Practices for Cataloging DVD/Blu-ray only mention this field in the context of substantial accompanying text. BYU’s FAQ describes 006 as “as an auxiliary fixed field to be added when the fixed field for the format you have chosen is insufficient” though, so maybe some libraries use them more freely.

But yeah… I don’t think I’ve ever used an ILS that made use of Biog (or many other fixed fields) in the 008 even! Too bad, as it would be a nice if you could specify in a normalized way and then determine whether it’s an autobiography, individual or collective biography, etc.